Flight of the Intruder was originally
recorded on 2" 24-track analog tape encoded
with Dolby SR. After the sessions
Poledouris and engineer Tim Boyle mixed
everything down to 1/2" three-track stereo
tape, still using the Dolby SR process. Twotrack
stereo mixes were later made as safeties
for storage on both 1/4" tape and DAT.

For our premiere presentation of this
powerful score, Paramount Pictures provided us with access to all of the elements. We chose the three-channel mixes
as they were clean, crisp and complete, with the Dolby SR format yielding an
unusually quiet signal-to-noise ratio for analog tape. This format, in fact, was the
composer’s own preference. We encountered it on other projects of the era with
Poledouris, and he stated he would always choose a multitrack analog recording
with SR over any digital one.

The entire score is presented in film sequence, with a couple of alternate
takes featured as “the extras.”

So suit up, grab your helmet and join Basil Poledouris with his cockpit full of
musicians for this exciting Flight of the Intruder.

—Douglass Fake

Flight Of The Intruder
Recorded on June 30, July 9, 10 and 23, 1990, at Evergreen Radford Studio (CBS – Radford), Burbank, California